Celebrities With Bizarre Food Habits

It's no secret that celebrities can sometimes exhibit odd or eccentric behavior in various aspects of their lives. In some cases, that will extend to the food they eat, and how they eat it. Case in point: the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, swears by her kitchen trick of slow-boiling zucchini for several hours and then tossing the resultant "filthy, sexy mush" on top of pasta — which, she promises, is nowhere nearly as vile as it may sound.

Meanwhile, some stars have divulged the off-kilter ways in which they consume their favorite foods. Model/TV host Chrissy Teigen, for example, revealed her odd way of enjoying Doritos in an interview with Delish. "I lick off the nacho cheese seasoning and put the chips back in the bag," she explained. "You still get all the flavor, not all the carbs!"

While examples like those may appear strange to non-famous folks, it's merely the tip of the culinary iceberg when it comes to the weird, wild, and wonderfully wacky food quirks that some celebs have developed. For further proof, read on to discover even more celebrities with bizarre food habits.  

One of Shailene Woodley's favorite things to eat isn't even food. In a 2014 interview with Into the Gloss, the "Big Little Lies" star declared her love of eating clay, insisting it's "one of the best things you can put in your body."

Woodley was first turned onto the idea, she explained, by an African cab driver. "I've discovered that clay is great for you because your body doesn't absorb it, and it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes," she said. "And, this is crazy: it also helps clean heavy metals out of your body."

During Woodley's 2014 appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman," curious host Letterman questioned her about the clay-eating habit. As Today recounted, Letterman asked Woodley to explain "the difference between clay and dirt." As the audience laughed, Woodley admitted, "That's a great question." She did not, it turned out, have a great answer. "Um, I think dirt is ... they're made from different matter. It's a different earth material. I'm not smart enough to answer that question." 

Anyone who's watched Netflix's The Crown would certainly agree that the British royals have some extremely quirky rules by which they abide. Some of these involve food, with meals often becoming elaborate, etiquette-laden production numbers.

The head of the clan, the late Queen Elizabeth II, was known to have some very specific food preferences, such as her aversion to starchy food and rare meat. Her Majesty was, however, a big fan of fresh fruit, including bananas. Naturally, the manner in which the Queen eats a banana is markedly different from the way that a commoner would do it.

In his book "Eating Royally," former royal chef Darren McGrady writes that the Queen ate her bananas using a knife and fork. The reason, McGrady's spokesperson confirmed to Insider, was so she wouldn't appear to be eating "like a monkey." According to McGrady (who also served as personal chef to Princess Diana), the Queen cut off the top and bottom of the banana and then sliced the skin lengthwise so it's easy to remove. She then sliced up the banana into bite-sized chunks and speared them with a fork.

Fans of Ed Sheeran know the British singer-songwriter loves ketchup. Like, seriously loves ketchup, so much so that one of his multiple tattoos features the logo of his preferred brand, Heinz. 

Sheeran's ketchup obsession is so intense that he's taken extreme measures to ensure he'll never have to endure a ketchup-free meal. A source told Page Six that Sheeran had "run out of patience with going to places that don't serve it while he's touring." As a result, the source added, "He's made it a duty of key members of his entourage to carry a bottle wherever he goes so he can have it with everything from his morning sausage butty [British slang for sandwich] to upmarket dinners."

When a poll of British kids voted him as the number one choice to lead the nation as U.K. prime minister, Sheeran posted a photo of the headline on Instagram — along with a ketchup-related promise to his future constituents. "I can't even think of a caption for this let alone run the country but I would make 5 am illegal and ketchup compulsory in all places with chips," he wrote.

Jennifer Lawrence sat down for an interview with Glamour, revealing such details about herself as her favorite curse word and that her "signature scent" was red wine, which she joked "is always seeping from my pores." She was also asked to describe her "greatest food invention," and her answer was both awesome and, to be honest, a little bit frightening. 

"It's called a chili pizza sandwich," JLaw declared and then proceeded to outline how to create it. "You have a piece of pizza, you put chili in it, Southern chili, with noodles, and then another piece of pizza, and then you eat it like a sandwich," she explained. Answering an obvious question that would likely spring to mind after reading that description, the "Hunger Games" star vehemently insisted that she invented the bizarre concoction when she "was completely sober, totally sober."

People's associate food and lifestyle editor Shay Spence replicated Lawrence's culinary creation and weighed in with a review. It was, Spence declared, "so. dang. good." In fact, he admitted, "I ate the whole thing. I am a monster."

Back in 2016, the internet went nuts when paparazzi photos emerged of Canadian crooner Michael Bublé chowing down on an ear of corn during a family day at Disneyland. It wasn't the fact that he was eating corn on the cob that garnered the attention, but the weird way in which he was doing it. Rather than holding the ear horizontally and chew off the kernels, as a normal person would, he was seen inserting the entire end of the cob into his mouth. You know, in the manner one would eat an ice cream cone. Numerous folks on social media were quick to take him to task for such an inefficient — not to mention weird — way of consuming corn on the cob.

Users of Reddit, in fact, went particularly wild, using Photoshop to alter the pic with all sorts of silliness. All that online furor eventually made its way to Bublé, who responded with a tongue-in-cheek tweet.

"This is vegetable harassment!!!" he wrote jokingly. "What I do with my Cobb [sic] is nobody's business." He ended his Twitter missive with a trio of hashtags: #mesocorny, #paparazzi, and #shuckme.

Viewers of a 2019 video from Cheetah Girls star Adrienne Bailon-Houghton wondered if she'd experienced some kind of short-circuit with her tastebuds when they witnessed the bizarre flavor combination she declared a favorite. In the video, an episode of her YouTube series "All Things Adrienne," Bailon-Houghton bragged, "I've been told that I make the most incredible tuna fish salad. Like you guys don't even understand ... My tuna fish does not taste fishy, number one, and number two, it's got mad flavor."

The secret of that flavor came, strangely enough, by pouring some fruit punch into the mixture. "No one can tell me that doesn't taste bomb!" she insisted after explaining she invented her unique version of tuna salad while trying to come up with the perfect after-school snack. 

She then took it a step further by dunking her tuna sandwich into a glass of fruit punch, then bringing out her skeptical producer to give it a try. "I promise you it's good!" Bailon-Houghton said, offering a taste. After squeamishly taking a bite, the producer had to admit that "it's really good!"

Eating raw onions isn't that unusual. We eat raw onions all the time in sandwiches and salads. However, Kim Kardashian's daughter North West doesn't bother with peeling or slicing her onions before she turns them into a snack. In the footage from the Hulu show "The Kardashians," she eats an onion with the peel on rather than off. In the episode, she's making sushi and fried chicken with her mom when she bites into an onion – skin and all – like she's been doing it all of her life. Her mom asks, "You're just going to eat an onion like it's an apple? This is what she does, people. She eats veggies like apples."

You do see the peel fall from her mouth in one scene, and she looks like she's about to spit another piece of skin out of her mouth before the film cuts momentarily. So it appears that she's not eating the peel as she eats the onion. Still, not too many people walk around chomping into an onion so casually.

If you're thinking of giving West's onion-eating method a try, keep in mind that onion skins are not easy to break down and chew with your teeth. So, they can pose a choking hazard. Onion peels, like most fruit and vegetable peels, are full of vitamins and nutrients. Because of their nutritional content and flavor, lots of people save them to help flavor stocks.

Singer and actress Selena Gomez has a pickle obsession, which seems to have started in childhood. Not only does she like to eat pickles and drink pickle juice, but she always keeps pickles backstage along with water to help keep hydrated. However, she likes pickle flavor on other things as well. When Gomez was on the Kelly Clarkson show, she revealed that, as a child living in Texas, she went to a snow cone stand that sold dill pickle juice snow cones with grape pieces in them. As Gomez explained in a clip Clarkson posted on Instagram, "If you're from the South, you understand that pickles are a part of our life."

She loves pickles so much that she's even joked about putting out a pickle cookbook. When she was on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," she brought Fallon some Texas-style popcorn that she made by shaking plain popcorn in a bag with Tobasco hot sauce and salt. Then, you dip the spicy popcorn into pickle juice before popping it into your mouth. When she's in Texas, she even likes getting pickles when she goes to the movies to accompany her popcorn. Unfortunately, not every state sells pickles at the movies, which she finds disappointing.

However, not all pickle products are fair game. The British snack Pickled Onion Monster Munch made her feel sick.

When Nicole Kidman appeared on Vanity Fair's "Secret Talent Theatre," she demonstrated her "talent" for eating bugs. She showed up dressed in formalwear for a fancy meal and proceeded to use chopsticks to eat a 4-course meal of insects and worms or "micro livestock" as she calls them. "I'm telling you," she says, "I'd win 'Survivor.'"

The first she eats are live bluish-green colored hornworms. She had difficulty describing the flavor but called them "extraordinary" as well as "moist and chewy." The second course she revealed was a dish full of squirming live mealworms, which she described as tasting fruity. Her third course was crickets, which she said were like eating a "hairy nut." The insect she seemed to enjoy eating most, however, was her dessert item — fried grasshoppers. She called them "exquisite" and recommended them to viewers.

If Kidman's culinary adventures with insects make you curious, there are plenty of ways you can start cooking with bugs. As her fried grasshopper dessert item shows, you don't necessarily have to eat them live ... thank goodness.

When actor Pedro Pascal and actress Bella Ramsey were playing the game "The Last Time I..." on a segment for The Hollywood Reporter, Ramsey revealed that she uses an unusual liquid on her breakfast cereal. Instead of topping it with milk, she uses orange juice.

The question The Hollywood Reporter posed to the "Last of Us" stars was to reveal the last meal they ate. Ramsey surprised everyone by saying her last meal was "cornflakes and bran with dried strawberries in with orange juice instead of milk." When Pascal questioned her choice of orange juice instead of milk, she said the substitution was "so good." Years ago, she substituted orange juice in her cereal when she couldn't find a dairy alternative. She said once she tried it, she "loved it and it's been a thing ever since." Since she doesn't drink dairy, it makes a great regular alternative.

So, next time you're out of your favorite milk and you have some orange juice in the fridge, you might follow her lead.